A commenter in this thread says that recess appointments can't be used for the federal bench; actually, they can. This seems like a good time to remember that President Clinton used a recess appointment to appoint Roger Gregory, because Jesse Helms otherwise refused to allow...
Author: Scott Lemieux
In light of Mario Loyola's quite remarkable claim that were the federal government were to pass a law requiring militias to disband instead of resisting a foreign occupation the people.
Four of Bush's more incompetent and wingnutty choices for the federal courts look dead. In general, the Senate Dems should study how Republicans obstructed Clinton's choices in the last years.
Since a couple of people have asked, I should probably say a little more than my flip response to Pithlord's hope (and, at one time, prediction) that the federal "partial birth" legislation will not be overturned because it exceeds Congress' Commerce Clause powers. The long...
Lindsay won't be happy, but apparently Feingold isn't running for President. I'm a little ambivalent, because I like Feingold a lot. But in light of the election it makes sense..
Shorter Ann Althouse: Democrats must start answering the following question: "When will you stop being traitors?" As Glenn points out, what's particularly funny about this is that Althouse, Reynolds, Peretz.
As a follow-up to this post, I missed it because I still read the Times the old-fashioned way but the death of the legislation required to inscribe discrimination into the Massachusetts constitution is apparently not merely hypothetical. Somehow, I'm sure this will fail to come...
Look, when it comes to party-establishment v. netroots I'm squarely in the "it's not a zero-sum game" camp. I even think that Harold Ford is probably a pretty good option.
I've been reading over the oral arguments in the two federal D&X ban cases; if I see any nuggets that don't fit into my larger article I'll pass them along..
I was lucky enough to have a brief chat with Congressman Barney Frank, who was visiting Hunter to teach two classes, last night. He confirmed my analysis of Massachusetts politics after Goodridge--it's highly unlikely that a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision will pass, and...
A meaningful college game in the metropolitan area? Because Rutgers is undefeated? And they stay that way because they beat the (admittedly dubious) #3 BCS team? What's next, the Royals.
I'm not sure what Atrios is so upset about. Personally, I'm relieved that we'll finally be able to see John McCain and Joe Lieberman on a Sunday talk show. I.